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That's a LOT of photons!!!
To put that into some sort of perspective, let's compare these numbers against something more tangible.
How many grains of sand are there on the planet Earth? Well, according to The Math Dude there are approximately 5.6 x 1021 grains!!!
That's 5,600,000,000,000,000,000,000!
So, by this reckoning, when you fire off about 1000 pulses of 1064nm laser energy at 1J per pulse, you will have generated approximately the same number of photons as the total number of grains of sand on the entire planet!
If your laser runs at 10 Hz (10 shots per second) then you only need 100 seconds, or less than two minutes, of shots to equal all that sand.
Makes you think..... Mike.
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